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Lunch with the Clydesdale - Wednesday Show! - We Have a New CEO! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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Well, CrossFit has a new CEO.
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I've got a few questions.
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Let's talk about it next.
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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
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Good to be here.
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We've got Trent Olive in the chat.
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We've got Vicki.
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We've got Meredith.
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We've got Joseph.
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Daniel, what's going on, everybody?
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So busy day.
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I looked at hotel reservations in
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Knoxville, Tennessee,
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and I was warned that there's a lot
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going on in Knoxville.
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i got a really good deal on hotel
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rooms so i am going to be going
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to the syndicate crown i reached out to
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wilson pock today um super stoked about
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that that will be my first event back
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uh since everything happened and um super
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stoked for that so i will be going
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to knoxville
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the end of next month to check out
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all the action and uh yeah getting my
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camera out doing my thing i i can't
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wait i love i love the semi-final piece
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of the season um i know i talk
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a lot about that they've removed a lot
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of the drama from that stage but that
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but there's still some
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There's still some.
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And the access we can get with semifinal
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athletes is so much better than that at
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the games or whatnot.
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So, yeah.
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So...
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going to drive down.
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I see Daniel asking flying or driving.
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It's about five and a half hour drive
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for me, five and a half, six hours.
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Um, so just going to drive down and,
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um, gosh, I,
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I've been to Knoxville so many times,
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been to the syndicate,
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been to the Mac and, uh,
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really like it.
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There's easy time to get around.
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And, um,
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Going to check that out.
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So super stoked, super stoked to be there.
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Cannot wait till I get to break out
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the camera again and do my thing.
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And speaking of that, every day,
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because last week at Legends,
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this week at Magic City,
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the Masters athletes have been punching
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their ticket to the CrossFit Games.
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I made a big video last year from
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the age group CrossFit Games,
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where I did what is your why and
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I had all this footage that got thrown
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on the editing room floor and so what
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I'm doing is I'm releasing one five-ish
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minute interview I did with several age
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group athletes last year at the CrossFit
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Games I'm releasing one a day uh up
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through for about two weeks um
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And so if you have not seen them
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yet,
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I'm calling them the lost tapes of the
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twenty twenty five CrossFit Games.
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About four of them have been released.
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What's happening is they're going to
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members only for about seventy two hours
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and then they'll release to the general
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public right after that about every day at
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eleven a.m.
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And so you can check those out.
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They are a quick watch.
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They are five minutes or less.
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Um,
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and these people who work day jobs and
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go check out everything at the CrossFit
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games and do all this stuff and why
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they do it and, uh,
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how they found CrossFit.
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Uh, it's, it's really a fun, fun lesson.
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So, uh, go check it out.
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Um,
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Daniel says, CEO talk today.
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They announced like right after y'all got
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off yesterday.
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So yeah,
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that is on the docket to discuss.
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I guess we can jump into that now
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since Daniel is bringing it up.
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What I have here is the new CEO
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for CrossFit was announced.
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His name is Bruce Edwards.
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And I have his LinkedIn pulled up.
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And he is now,
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he already has his LinkedIn updated.
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See it?
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CrossFit LLC full-time CEO.
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Some of his past experience,
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if people don't know,
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he was the chief operating officer for
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CrossFit from twenty thirteen to twenty
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nineteen.
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And.
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And so he.
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He has been in the CrossFit space for
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a very long time.
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In addition to being chief operating
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officer, before that,
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he actually trained with Greg before
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CrossFit was fully imagined and invented.
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He likes to say that he had a
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lot of the original workouts tested on
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him.
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uh by greg but because he started with
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him in the late and crossfit.com with the
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uh workout of the day didn't start till
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so he'd been working with greg for a
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few years before that initial release so
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he has been around the methodology he's
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been around the the concept and the
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what CrossFit means from the guy who
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invented it,
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the guy who wrote all the materials,
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all of that stuff for much of his
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life.
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He left CrossFit in two thousand nineteen
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and after that he well,
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during that he was the co-founder,
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owner and coach of CrossFit Aptos in
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California.
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So he's owned an affiliate in addition to
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that.
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but he also was the chief growth officer
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at in shape fitness,
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the president and chief operating officer
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of bear three and a chief executive
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officer,
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CEO of core development and management.
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And so, yeah,
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he has a lot of gym experience and
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a lot of experience around this space
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where, where I,
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What I'm having a hard time with in
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my head is that why is a venture
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capital company hiring this guy that grew
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up in this system that kind of conflicts
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with what you've been trying to do for
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the last six years?
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And my hope and my dream is that
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Berkshire has seen the light and said,
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this can't be a money grab.
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This community won't go for a money grab.
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And we've got to change the way we're
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doing it.
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And we need to bring in somebody that
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saw how the initial growth has gone and
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And maybe we need to let that develop
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and we need to stop the sale for
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five years.
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We need to let this guy take over
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and we need to see what transpires.
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Jay Birch says to appease the masses.
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Venture capitalists do not care about the
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masses.
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They care about money.
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And the problem is,
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is the way they've gone about it has
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lost them money.
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So what can they do to make money
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back?
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But that's where it gets confusing to me
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is now you've got this yin and yang,
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like this tug,
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this pool back and forth between the
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making of the money and the initial way
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the growth happened wasn't about the
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money.
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So like,
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How do those things marry that makes both
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Berkshire and CrossFit HQ benefit?
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That's where I think it gets a little
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bit confusing.
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Shanna says,
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I wonder how Dave feels about this.
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So by all accounts,
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Dave is very close with this new CEO.
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Um,
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and so from what I've heard is Dave
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is cool with this guy.
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It's somebody he respects.
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It's somebody that will probably give him,
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um,
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will give him more autonomy to do the
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things that Dave does well.
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Um,
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Exactly, Scott.
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The only hope of profiting off of their
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investment is to let CrossFit be CrossFit.
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And that's kind of what I'm saying, Wayne,
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but what my fear is,
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is do they even freaking understand that
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still?
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Are they going to try to get Bruce
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to conform to their way,
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or are they going to let Bruce be
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Bruce?
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And that has been an issue that I've
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talked about
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When Don fall step down,
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because in my opinion,
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unless you let the new CEO be who
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they are,
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it doesn't matter who you put in that
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role because there is still a board of
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directors that you have to report to.
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Now,
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if the board of directors decide Bruce
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knows what he's doing,
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he's done it for so many companies.
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He knows the inner workings of CrossFit
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and lets him let him be him.
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then I think we're in a good place.
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But that's a big if that's kind of
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like hanging out there.
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Daniel says,
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Dave made it sound in the Week in
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Review that when he said he thinks he
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should be CEO, that if he wasn't picked,
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he was going to leave,
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and that worries me.
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Dave never said he was going to leave.
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Dave said he knew...
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Dave left that very ambiguous,
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if you go back and watch it.
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He does not say he's going to leave.
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He just says he knows what he would
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do,
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and he's not willing to say that yet.
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I think that this guy being hired is
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a factor that would help retain Dave.
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If they are truly as close as everything
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that I am hearing.
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CrossFit says,
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plenty of peeps I'm cool with,
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but I wouldn't want to work under.
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Fair enough.
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Fair enough.
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Chattanoofy,
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I do not know why Bruce left CrossFit
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years ago.
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Bruce wasn't the CEO back then.
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He was the chief operating officer taking
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direction from others.
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And maybe he got other opportunities that
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he wanted to seek out.
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CrossFit says,
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or the board can figure out it's Kirky's
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specific brand,
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not a global power that should be
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everything.
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Again,
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I hope that they have figured out that
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this is a quirky brand.
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It is not Planet Fitness.
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It is not Orange Theory.
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It is something of its own and needs
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to be treated as such.
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CrossFit kind of nails it.
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Depending on who they name,
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I may not be in this role.
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i think but again everything was implied
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in the week in review he after he
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said if i'm not the ceo he left
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it very vague and ambiguous uh jeff kane
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was ceo i think yeah i didn't i
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didn't want to jump to that crossfit
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because i i can't remember the specific
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specific dates that jeff kane was ceo
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And that would have meant that Bruce
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wasn't taking direction from Greg anymore,
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but taking direction from Jeff Kane.
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And maybe that is why he left.
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The dates escape,
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this specific dates escape me.
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I know Jeff Kane was there around that
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time.
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I believe Jeff Kane was there when they
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fired the media.
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And that would have been twenty eighteen.
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Bruce left in twenty nineteen.
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And then Jeff Kane left maybe twenty
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nineteen,
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but I don't know where he's I don't
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know.
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I don't know.
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Mark Phillips says he left in what,
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twenty nineteen ish.
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Tons of changes happened that year.
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Yeah,
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a lot was happening from twenty eighteen
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on that twenty eighteen to twenty twenty.
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There was a lot of upheaval in a
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lot of different directions.
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And so and I am not privy to
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the inner workings of CrossFit at that
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time to know exactly why Bruce would have
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left or why other changes were made or
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or any of that.
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So I want to be optimistic.
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I'm going to be optimistic.
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That's just in my nature is to think
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that they've got the right guy in place
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to kind of demonstrate what CrossFit is
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and what needs to happen for it to
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have growth.
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And I pray that the board allows him
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to do that.
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That is my biggest hope for this moving
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forward.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah.
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And Bruce does have experience in other
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fitness places as well.
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So maybe he can marry the two better
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than we think is possible.
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I don't know.
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I, I think off the top,
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he gets more respect because he was around
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for the start of CrossFit.
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He knows the,
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he's still good friends with Greg.
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I mean,
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if you watch the Vaughn this morning,
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they just went out on a boating trip,
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not that long ago, a week ago.
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So it's not like they're not still in
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contact, um,
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or would be able to discuss things.
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CrossFit says the Planet Fitness
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franchisee role is really important.
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The brand is actually rebounded.
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Yeah,
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I do think he brings a little bit
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of knowledge from those growth gym models
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plus the foundations of CrossFit.
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It's going to be interesting to see how
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he pulls the two together.
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Really.
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Really.
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So with all that news,
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I do have a bit of a mini
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riff.
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And yesterday I gave so many flowers to
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CrossFit and their media department for
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what came out their road to the games,
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the CrossFit Open.
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was fantastic.
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One of the best documentaries I've seen in
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years come out of CrossFit.
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And I am hypercritical of those
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documentaries.
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And that one was fantastic.
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Fantastic.
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Then yesterday, this announcement is made.
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And I don't know what the media department
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is thinking about,
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but they released the information to three
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media outlets.
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They released it to Barbell Spin.
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I can get behind that.
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Barbell Spin is a leader in the space,
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in this media content space.
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That makes sense to me.
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But then you release it to Morning Chalk
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Up,
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whose one issue a week that they have
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now doesn't even come out until tomorrow.
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Other than that,
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they just post little stuff here and there
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on Instagram.
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And then talking elite fitness,
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talking freaking elite fitness,
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who just announced a week ago they were
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taking an indefinite sabbatical from the
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show.
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who got the band back together one week
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after saying they were taking an
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indefinite leave of absence,
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they get this information thrown to them
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ahead of everybody else in the space,
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and they're like on a break,
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but they're on a break.
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Did we go back to twenty nineteen?
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And think that those were the relevant
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news outlets in the space?
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Are you joking me?
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Are you kidding me?
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What?
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What were you thinking?
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What were you thinking?
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You release your information to a news
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outlet who puts out one thing a week,
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one thing a week, and it's on Thursday,
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and you make the announcement on Tuesday.
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The other outlet you send to broke up
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a week ago.
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They're on a break.
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They're on a break.
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This is where I have to say that
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the WFP is so much better than CrossFit
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at press releases.
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Every time the WFP puts out news,
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they do a formal press release to their
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list of media, which I get every time.
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And that is something they do way better
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than CrossFit has ever done.
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So it is bonkers to me that you
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release the information to those two
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entities.
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Barbell spin, I get.
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I get barbell spin.
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I do not get morning chalk up,
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and I do not get TEF.
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Yes, Daniel, we're on a break.
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I wonder if Sean learned at Mayhem and
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basically was sworn in.
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Regardless.
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Regardless,
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there's people like me that do,
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and I'm not saying this that I should
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have gotten the leak or the news in
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advance.
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Savon does a daily show.
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I do a daily show.
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That information gets released daily if
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you're willing to do it.
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Just do a press release.
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Do a press release to all media.
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Let the blast happen.
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This announcement.
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Roussini had Talking Elite Fitness on her
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Spotify account.
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Yeah,
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right there below the This One's for Mike
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playlist.
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Wait, they released it to TEF first?
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Yes.
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They had a show that was out before
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Savant Show, before...
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It might have been out half an hour,
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twenty minutes before Siobhan went live.
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Yeah.
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Meredith, I hadn't heard about the break.
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Yeah, it was, gosh, just a week ago.
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Like last week,
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at the end of one of their shows,
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or during one of their shows,
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Sean said that due to life events,
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mainly his own, ninety percent his own,
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the show was going to go on an
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indefinite break.
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um so they released it to two basically
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defunct outlets pretty much pretty much um
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uh tef and mcu make no sense they
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have they make absolutely no sense
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They said something like this should be
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released by the time this episode airs or
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something.
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Yeah.
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Because talking elite fitness,
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don't do anything live.
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So it was all recorded.
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And when I looked at the timestamp,
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it was right after I'd listened to Savant
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show.
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And it said two hours ago that it
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had been released.
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Um,
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Any chance he has been asked to return
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to CrossFit?
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By who?
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He, who, who?
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Who, Wayne?
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Just when I thought I was out,
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they pulled me back in.
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And Dave doesn't care.
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Rich had this news at Mayhem.
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I'm sure Rich knew some way, somehow.
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I'm surprised Spin didn't do a breaking
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news show last night.
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From my understanding,
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Spin has kids that are in things, sports,
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whatever.
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When my daughter was in all that stuff,
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I didn't have time to do crap.
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I don't know how people with multiple kids
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even get around doing that.
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Jay Burch says, that was good, Scott.
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I thought you were Brando.
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People compare.
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People compare us.
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That Monday podcast after Mayhem,
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the last three seconds he said,
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CrossFit has a CEO,
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and then they added the podcast.
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Yeah, I mean, it's not surprising he knew,
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but it's just the fact that CrossFit has
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not aged well in the media department.
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And I'm going to give you another example.
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So yesterday, I think it was yesterday,
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yesterday I got an email from CrossFit
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saying that they would like me to,
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They would like me to know that
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applications are open for media
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credentials at the CrossFit Games.
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And here's the link to apply.
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So I went in to apply for my
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media credentials at the CrossFit Games.
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And you fill out all the stuff and
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it asks you,
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what is your website for your entity?
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But it doesn't ask you for like your
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Instagram or your YouTube channel or any
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of that stuff.
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Only a website.
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They have not evolved at all with what
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is relevant in the media space.
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Because in today's media,
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especially in their sport,
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websites are not what's important.
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Where their news is spread is through
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YouTube and through Instagram and through
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Twitter or X, I'm sorry.
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It boggles my mind that websites are still
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looked at as the main source of vetting
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whether a media outlet should or should
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not have access to the CrossFit Games.
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Does it ask access needs?
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I'm not sure I understand that one,
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CrossFat.
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The other thing that is frustrating for me
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is when I go to the games,
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I want to take at least a photographer,
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videographer, or two.
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Why can't I add that to my request?
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Now,
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you could come back and say you're
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approved,
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but we can't let you take two
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videographers, but you can have one.
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Like, that makes sense to me.
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But no,
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everybody I want to take has to fill
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out the application separately.
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And then they have to put in there
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that they are with me.
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So I don't know.
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chat a new fee same thing for their
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coach insurance they offer please enter
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your website and it's a required field no
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option around it okay thanks bye yep it's
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a required field on the mat on the
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media application as well ed ai i'd be
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the worst photographer assistant but i'll
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work dang hard for you scott
29:31
Everybody wants to be a photographer or a
29:35
videographer.
29:37
But Jonathan's worked for me, Ortega.
29:41
I have Ishmael,
29:44
who goes to a lot of events for
29:46
me.
29:48
I have another girl named Caitlin that I
29:51
use.
29:54
So I have a handful that I go
29:56
to.
30:02
Get yourself approved,
30:03
then work on others.
30:06
The problem, Hexy Lover,
30:07
is they do it on a rolling basis.
30:10
So if you don't get your applications in
30:12
early,
30:13
you may not hear until a week before
30:15
the games.
30:17
So, like, I reached out to Ishmael.
30:19
Ishmael's got his app in.
30:20
I've got my app in.
30:22
And then I'll see if I can get
30:23
another one to maybe get one in as
30:25
well.
30:26
I have to see if Jamie or Carolyn
30:28
want to go or even Corey.
30:30
Okay.
30:32
because maybe they want to go.
30:35
Just trying to figure out all that stuff.
30:44
Every major concert or event as a
30:46
photographer,
30:47
you have to put in who your point
30:48
of contact is and who the outlet is
30:51
and they confirm it with them.
30:54
They do.
30:55
They do confirm everything with me.
30:57
I just wish you could do it as...
31:01
As one application.
31:13
Um,
31:16
CrossFit agree Ortega and some events that
31:19
links to a background check.
31:25
Chad Anufi,
31:26
hope I get to meet you at the
31:27
games.
31:28
Got our tickets a few weeks ago.
31:30
It's awesome.
31:32
Awesome.
31:32
Hope I get to meet you as well.
31:37
Joseph,
31:38
I can carry equipment and get coffee,
31:39
Scott.
31:42
The coffee,
31:43
my biggest problem is when I'm at the
31:45
games, Joseph, is that I forget to eat.
31:48
And then I get sick late in the
31:50
day because I have not eaten all day.
31:53
And so I just,
31:54
I need a food runner,
31:56
food runner and beverage runner.
31:58
That's pretty much it.
32:07
Hopefully Corey is going to compete.
32:08
Yeah.
32:09
Hopefully Carolyn is going to compete.
32:10
Jamie's going to compete and Corey's going
32:12
to compete.
32:15
It would be awesome if they were all
32:17
at the games on the competition floor.
32:19
Hopefully Joseph's going to compete and,
32:31
Daniel's also an incredible cook.
32:34
Man, offers are just flooding in now.
32:39
Ortega, I always forget to eat.
32:41
It gets so crazy going from heat to
32:44
heat to heat and downloading stuff and
32:47
editing stuff.
32:48
Like I've seen Ortega at work, man.
32:50
It is like an all day grind.
32:53
And if you're in that grind,
32:55
you just forget to eat and drink.
33:01
Hubby and I will be there too,
33:02
regardless whether I qualify or not.
33:04
Looking forward to it.
33:05
Happy to bring you food.
33:15
In Texas, regular food,
33:17
normal water was difficult.
33:19
My body became forty percent.
33:23
You ain't lying.
33:24
Cross fat.
33:25
Yeah.
33:25
Every time you walk through,
33:28
there was like a free bottle of Jocko.
33:30
Holy cow.
33:39
Uh, Vicki wish I was going,
33:40
I'd be happy to help and I'd fit
33:42
in your backpack.
33:45
There you go.
33:46
Like baby group.
33:48
Uh,
33:50
Who should they have released it to?
33:52
Speed of news is becoming less relevant.
33:54
Accuracy of news reigns supreme.
33:57
Well,
33:57
I don't think you release it to two
33:59
defunct news outlets.
34:01
Again,
34:02
I'm cool with it going to the spin.
34:04
Spin makes sense to me.
34:06
fine with all that but not to a
34:09
podcast that just said they're going off
34:12
the air for a while and not to
34:15
a news outlet who has reduced its content
34:20
to one day a week and they're not
34:25
that relevant anymore I think it's more
34:31
and again I don't care that I didn't
34:33
get it I don't care
34:37
What I care about is that it appears
34:40
that the CrossFit media strategy is not
34:43
evolving with what media is today.
34:55
Daniel says,
34:56
I can literally say I've never forgotten
34:57
to eat ever in my life.
35:00
Yeah.
35:07
Grant says,
35:09
not only will I do it for free,
35:11
I will purchase the food.
35:14
Beat that, people.
35:22
There are cool dudes and gals out there
35:24
that buy me a coffee when they see
35:26
me or an energy drink.
35:27
Y'all amazing.
35:28
Yeah,
35:29
I have awesome people too that show up
35:31
with food.
35:32
Hell, Corey texts me during the day.
35:34
Do you eat yet?
35:35
Do you eat yet?
35:38
Judy Reed has bought me a salad before
35:42
and a wrap I think once.
35:44
Yeah, it's crazy.
35:51
Their own channel should have done a press
35:53
release.
35:53
I would have been cool with that.
35:57
You have the CrossFit podcast.
35:59
Do a live breaking news.
36:01
Announce the CEO.
36:03
And then put out a press release to
36:06
the media that you have.
36:07
They emailed me asking me to apply for
36:10
media credentials.
36:11
That means you have an email list.
36:13
Send out a press release to that email
36:16
list.
36:17
It's not hard.
36:27
And they also have their own socials.
36:28
They could release it there.
36:30
I think this was bigger than a social
36:32
post.
36:32
I think this was,
36:34
let's do the CrossFit podcast.
36:36
Let's tell you who this guy is and
36:38
read his letter.
36:39
He wrote a letter of what,
36:43
where he came from,
36:44
what his qualifications are and what it
36:47
could mean to the system.
36:48
Right.
37:04
CrossFit has never really handled the
37:06
official release thing well, like ever.
37:08
I know that's what I'm saying.
37:10
It's one aspect that the WFP has killed
37:14
CrossFit on.
37:16
They are really good at putting out press
37:19
releases.
37:21
Really good.
37:33
Albany had pretty good food options.
37:36
Whole Foods next to the Shark Tank.
37:38
That's pretty good.
37:43
Judy got me a cold brew at Mayhem.
37:45
She's dope.
37:46
Judy is the coolest person to have at
37:52
a comp.
37:53
And as David Reed says,
37:55
I married up for sure.
38:01
Chase should have been the voice to
38:02
release that news or Hobart on the
38:05
CrossFit podcast or Denise.
38:08
I don't think it's a games announcement.
38:10
So the sport of pro sport of CrossFit
38:13
podcast is not the place.
38:15
It is probably more the CrossFit podcast.
38:19
And that is Denise or J or Hobart
38:24
to release that information.
38:36
Uh,
38:41
I will make you the best goat cheese
38:42
and pepper jelly burgers you've ever had
38:44
in your life.
38:46
I don't think I've ever had anything like
38:47
that, but it sounds freaking amazing,
38:50
dude.
38:59
Um,
39:03
Every media outlet should be able to opt
39:05
in to all press releases.
39:08
So they post a press release on their
39:09
website, but it's a pull, not a push.
39:13
And if,
39:14
like I'm in the middle of my workday,
39:15
I don't know to go pull that information
39:18
from the website unless I hear about it,
39:21
right?
39:22
So they have an email list.
39:25
And you're right,
39:26
opt in or unsubscribe from that email list
39:29
if you don't want to get press releases.
39:36
Corey, who skipped out on me today,
39:38
I can hear Chase's voice saying,
39:39
ladies and gentlemen, we have a new CEO.
39:42
I don't think that Chase and his podcast
39:45
were the right place.
39:46
This was more of a CrossFit podcast
39:51
release.
39:53
It needed to be Hobart or Denise on
39:59
that CrossFit podcast.
40:05
Are you saying pool or pool?
40:07
I am saying the first one.
40:14
First one, pool.
40:18
They should have brought in Bruce Buffer.
40:20
Yeah.
40:22
There you go.
40:29
chase is a host or play by play
40:33
they need more of a mike greenberg
40:34
breaking news bingo bingo so that is all
40:47
of that stuff it's really confusing i wish
40:52
it was simpler simple like thirdsy
40:56
Thirdsy is simple.
40:57
You mix it up in your water or
40:59
your milk at night.
41:01
You drink it.
41:02
And you can be like me.
41:03
In the last five days,
41:05
four of those nights,
41:06
I got eight hours plus of sleep.
41:10
I rested nice.
41:11
I recovered nice.
41:13
I saw earlier where someone asked me if
41:15
I'm back to working out.
41:17
I worked out Monday and yesterday.
41:20
I'm taking tonight off.
41:22
Got to get a haircut.
41:24
but it helps me recover from those
41:26
workouts.
41:27
And yeah, it's the best.
41:31
Go to thirdsy.com backslash Jazzy to get
41:34
fifteen percent off or use code Jazzy at
41:38
checkout.
41:40
Fifteen percent off your order.
41:48
Yeah,
41:48
I'm going to get them all cut cross
41:50
fat.
41:54
Diana Rossini was probably available to
41:56
break it.
41:56
She's got free time.
41:57
She sure does.
42:02
Ortega, what is the Diana Rossini thing?
42:06
You must be under the sports rock.
42:12
Thirdsy, simply the best.
42:13
It is.
42:15
Thirdsy.com backslash jazzy.
42:21
Ortega,
42:22
she's an NFL insider that basically got
42:24
caught having an affair with a married
42:26
coach.
42:31
Yeah,
42:31
and she had to resign from her job
42:33
and probably won't get another one.
42:39
Although, if I'm Barstool Sports,
42:42
is that a good pickup?
42:44
Shake it up a little bit?
42:46
Lean into it if she's willing?
43:01
So there's that.
43:04
What else do we got?
43:07
Just letting you guys know,
43:09
tomorrow night at five thirty p.m.
43:10
Eastern Time,
43:11
I will be a guest on the Glinton
43:13
Things podcast.
43:15
They're calling it Dinner with the
43:17
Clydesdale.
43:18
So I'm super stoked about that.
43:22
I've become a big fan of the Glint
43:24
and Things podcast,
43:25
and I'm going to be hanging out with
43:27
them tomorrow night at five thirty p.m.
43:30
Eastern time.
43:32
So.
43:35
That's happening tomorrow night.
43:37
And I watched episode one of the Hulk
43:41
Hogan documentary.
43:44
I don't think I'm into the juicy part
43:45
yet, but.
43:48
the twelve-year-old in me who grew up
43:51
watching Georgia Championship Wrestling on
43:54
TBS, getting to see B. Brian Blair again,
44:00
getting to see Bret the Hitman Hart,
44:03
getting to see Mouth of the South Jimmy
44:06
Hart in this documentary was awesome.
44:14
So I'm through episode one and
44:18
It's really just his rise.
44:27
CrossFed says he chose the worst time in
44:29
his life to call someone another word when
44:31
brother would have worked.
44:39
So, yeah.
44:41
It was so much fun.
44:42
Just nostalgia-wise, everything.
44:45
And Rocky is my favorite movie of all
44:47
time.
44:49
The fact that Vince McMahon senior fired
44:52
Hogan because he went to film Rocky three
44:57
and then didn't realize what exposure that
45:02
would give to wrestling and how that could
45:04
have been a linchpin moment for the growth
45:08
of wrestling history.
45:10
But his son did and his son corrected
45:15
that wild.
45:19
Wild.
45:20
And if you haven't seen the Vince McMahon
45:21
documentary, that's worth a watch too.
45:29
So, yeah, great documentary so far.
45:34
Can't wait to get into the other episodes.
45:37
If you have not watched episode one yet,
45:39
when they come to talk to Jimmy,
45:42
mouth of the south heart,
45:44
and he is sitting outside of his palatial,
45:48
palatial estate palatial estate holy
45:55
palatial wrestling paid well so um do you
46:13
remember hulk's weird show that was like
46:14
knight rider with a boat
46:16
Thunder Alley?
46:18
Thunder Alley, maybe?
46:21
Is that right, CrossFit?
46:22
Thunder Alley?
46:24
It was not good.
46:26
It was not good.
46:31
Branduni asks how this guy has time to
46:34
watch every podcast, interview, movie,
46:36
etc.
46:37
Does he work?
46:38
I do work.
46:39
I do.
46:41
And...
46:43
What I do is most podcasts I listen
46:46
to, uh, at one point five speed.
46:50
And I really just listen as I'm working.
46:54
That is my background noise while I'm
46:56
working.
46:58
Now, as for the documentaries,
47:00
those need my full attention.
47:02
And that's what I watch in the evening.
47:07
So there's that I'm talented.
47:11
I know how to multitask.
47:16
Jerry the King Lawler.
47:17
Yep.
47:19
God,
47:19
I hated him when I was a kid.
47:23
His arrogant ass as the broadcaster.
47:26
Gosh, I hated him.
47:30
So anyway,
47:32
train all of that's a rude question.
47:34
Yeah.
47:36
People are entitled to their opinions.
47:40
I'm okay with that.
47:43
What I'm going to leave you with today
47:45
is Jason Grubb did a podcast yesterday
47:47
about Legends.
47:49
I'm a big supporter of the Masters
47:50
community.
47:51
I do want to play a little Thunder
47:55
in Paradise.
47:56
That's what it is, Corey.
47:59
He must have Googled.
48:01
This is Jason Grubb talking about what
48:03
happened at Legends and the aftermath with
48:06
CrossFit.
48:06
And it kind of goes back to their
48:09
release of information.
48:11
So I'm going to play that for you
48:13
now.
48:15
That night,
48:15
we're eating pizza and I see CrossFit
48:17
Games is posted.
48:19
Four athletes punch their ticket to the
48:21
games in Del Mar.
48:22
Dallin, James, Olivia, and...
48:26
Abby.
48:27
Abby.
48:27
Boom.
48:28
This is CrossFit.
48:29
Huge post.
48:30
Beautiful pictures.
48:31
Huge post.
48:32
Not one mention of the fact that this
48:34
was the first Masters semifinal event ever
48:38
took place in Del Mar.
48:39
Not mentioned.
48:40
Nothing.
48:41
Okay.
48:41
So that's that.
48:42
The next morning, they do have a post.
48:44
It has one picture of Becca Voigt,
48:46
which she's awesome.
48:47
She's iconic.
48:48
Great picture.
48:48
of her.
48:49
She was a games athlete back in the
48:51
day, so they're going to leave with that.
48:52
No other pictures,
48:53
but they did list our names.
48:54
So a nice after the fact.
48:56
But here's where I'm frustrated.
48:59
This is the Legends Championship.
49:00
This is a team that took Masters athletes
49:03
into a bigger competition for the past,
49:05
however, eight years or whatever.
49:07
This team runs the Masters games.
49:09
Not a freaking mention from CrossFit about
49:12
the excitement around the first Masters
49:14
in-person semifinals ever.
49:16
Nothing.
49:17
Post-Legends.
49:18
That
49:19
so gonna leave you with that i do
49:21
agree with a lot of what he said
49:23
it wouldn't have taken much to put out
49:25
a post with some pictures from the event
49:28
and who made it to the crossfit games
49:30
i think that would have been cool um
49:33
wish they would have done that um again
49:35
it goes back to where is media today
49:39
and i don't think they are with they're
49:42
up with the times
49:43
Wayne says,
49:44
I had a training partner that was in
49:46
no holds barred with Hulk Hogan.
49:48
Didn't have good things to say about him.
49:50
If you watch episode one,
49:51
you can tell that Bret the Hitman Hart
49:53
does not like Hulk Hogan.
49:57
But he does give him kudos about some
50:01
other stuff.
50:02
But you can tell by the look on
50:04
his face that there's going to be some
50:06
stuff coming that is what people don't
50:09
like about Hulk Hogan.
50:11
So, Shanna says, who cares about Masters,
50:14
right?
50:16
I think that is a big sentiment.
50:18
And that's how Masters athletes feel.
50:21
And it wouldn't have taken much to put
50:22
up a social media post about the people
50:25
that qualified.
50:31
Damn, no smear campaign against WFP today,
50:33
but against CrossFit.
50:34
How the turns table.
50:36
There you go.
50:37
You never know what you're going to get
50:38
on here, Lito.
50:39
Never know.
50:41
It's almost like under Jenna,
50:42
she needs many teams for various things so
50:46
that we don't miss stuff like that.
50:48
I think that I don't know.
50:52
I don't know if socials is different than
50:55
like the documentary releases.
50:58
I don't know the structure to know is
51:00
Jenna over all of that.
51:02
Some of that, I don't know.
51:07
Well, guys, it's been fun.
51:09
It's been real.
51:11
I'll be back tomorrow.
51:12
Hopefully,
51:13
I've got to go pick up a car
51:16
at the mechanic,
51:17
but I think I can do it in
51:18
the morning.
51:20
With that,
51:20
hopefully we'll be back tomorrow,
51:22
and if not,
51:22
I'll see you on Glidden Things tomorrow
51:23
night at five-thirty.
51:25
With that, have a great day.
51:26
Bye, guys.
51:29
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